The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications

D Poland, S Rychkov, A Vichi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics
of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids …

[HTML][HTML] Selected topics in analytic conformal bootstrap: A guided journey

A Bissi, A Sinha, X Zhou - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to offer a pedagogical introduction to the analytic conformal bootstrap
program via a journey through selected topics. We review analytic methods which include …

Snowmass white paper: the cosmological bootstrap

D Baumann, D Green, A Joyce, E Pajer… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to
the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and …

[HTML][HTML] The cosmological bootstrap: inflationary correlators from symmetries and singularities

N Arkani-Hamed, D Baumann, H Lee… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz
invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling …

[HTML][HTML] From dS to AdS and back

C Sleight, M Taronna - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We describe in more detail the general relation uncovered in our previous work
between boundary correlators in de Sitter (dS) and in Euclidean anti-de Sitter (EAdS) space …

Light-ray operators in conformal field theory

P Kravchuk, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We argue that every CFT contains light-ray operators labeled by a continuous spin
J. When J is a positive integer, light-ray operators become integrals of local operators over a …

The cosmological bootstrap: weight-shifting operators and scalar seeds

D Baumann, CD Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract A key insight of the bootstrap approach to cosmological correlations is the fact that
all correlators of slow-roll inflation can be reduced to a unique building block—the four-point …

Boostless cosmological collider bootstrap

GL Pimentel, DG Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Cosmological correlation functions contain valuable information about the
primordial Universe, with possible signatures of new massive particles at very high energies …

The cosmological bootstrap: spinning correlators from symmetries and factorization

D Baumann, C Duaso Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
We extend the cosmological bootstrap to correlators involving massless particles with spin.
In de Sitter space, these correlators are constrained both by symmetries and by locality. In …

A spacetime derivation of the Lorentzian OPE inversion formula

D Simmons-Duffin, D Stanford, E Witten - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract Caron-Huot has recently given an interesting formula that determines OPE data in
a conformal field theory in terms of a weighted integral of the four-point function over a …